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Bat Research Networks and Viral Surveillance: Gaps and Opportunities in Western Asia.
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- Wildlife Trade and Genetic Basis of Disease Susceptibility: A Review.International journal of immunogenetics · 2026Review
- Lyssavirus Antibody Detection in Cave-Dwelling Bats on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam: Implications for Zoonotic Surveillance.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Studying bats using a One Health lens: bridging the gap between bat virology and disease ecology.Journal of virology · 2024Review
- Advances in understanding bat infection dynamics across biological scales.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Distribution of bat species in Western Asia: Occurrence records from the Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) project.Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- A glimpse into the foraging and movement behaviour ofRoyal Society open science · 2023Article
- Trends in Bacterial Pathogens of Bats: Global Distribution and Knowledge Gaps.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Review
- Review of studies about bat-fly interactions inside roosts, with observations on partnership patterns for publications.Parasitology research · 2022Review
- A strategy to assess spillover risk of bat SARS-related coronaviruses in Southeast Asia.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs.The Lancet. Microbe · 2022Review
- Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Seasonality of coronavirus shedding in tropical bats.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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- More-Than-Human and Deeply Human Perspectives on COVID-19.Antipode · 2021Article
- Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
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- Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats.PLoS pathogens · 2020Review
- Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020Review
- The temporal RNA virome patterns of a lesser dawn bat (Virus evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bat research networks and viral surveillance are assumed to be at odds due to seemingly conflicting research priorities. Yet human threats that contribute to declines in bat populations globally also lead to increased transmission and spread of bat-associated viruses, which may pose a threat to global health and food security. In this review, we discuss the importance of and opportunities for multidisciplinary collaborations between bat research networks and infectious disease experts to tackle shared threats that jeopardize bat conservation as well as human and animal health. Moreover, we assess research effort on bats and bat-associated viruses globally, and demonstrate that Western Asia has limited published research and represents a gap for coordinated bat research. The lack of bat research in Western Asia severely limits our capacity to identify and mitigate region-specific threats to bat populations and detect interactions between bats and incidental hosts that promote virus spillover. We detail a regional initiative to establish the first bat research network in Western Asia (i.e., the Western Asia Bat Research Network, WAB-Net), with the aim of integrating ecological research on bats with virus surveillance to find "win-win" solutions that promote bat conservation and safeguard public and animal health across the region.
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